FOR THE QUESTION BELOW, DISCUSS IT IN YOUR CHAT.
- Do people bear some of the responsibility for their victimization if they maintain a lifestyle (either actively or passive precipitation) that contributes to the chances of becoming a crime victim?
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Therapy for Patients With Anxiety Disorders and PTSD Treatment
Therapy for Patients With Anxiety Disorders and PTSD Treatment
For individuals presenting with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders, everyday life can be a constant challenge. Clients requiring anxiolytic therapy may present with anxiousness, depression, substance abuse issues, and even physical symptoms related to cardiovascular, respiratory, and gastrointestinal ailments. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, you must be prepared to address the many needs of individuals seeking treatment for PTSD and other anxiety disorders.
This week, as you study anxiolytic therapies and PTSD treatments, you examine the assessment and treatment of patients with PTSD and other anxiety disorders. You also explore ethical and legal implications of these therapies.
Reference:
Philips, P. K. (n.d.). My story of survival: Battling PTSD. Anxiety and Depression Association of America. https://adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/personal-stories/my-story-survival-battling-ptsd
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Assess patient factors and history to develop personalized plans of anxiolytic therapy for patients
- Analyze factors that influence pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes in patients requiring anxiolytic therapy
- Synthesize knowledge of providing care to patients presenting with anxiolytic therapy
- Analyze ethical and legal implications related to prescribing anxiolytic therapy to patients across the lifespan
- Assess psychopharmacologic approaches to treatment for patients across the lifespan
Learning Resources
Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)
Medication Resources (click to expand/reduce)
Required Media (click to expand/reduce)
Case Study: A Middle-aged Caucasian Man with Anxiety
Note: This case study will serve as the foundation for this week’s Assignment.
Assignment: Assessing and Treating Patients With Anxiety Disorders
Common symptoms of anxiety disorders include chest pains, shortness of breath, and other physical symptoms that may be mistaken for a heart attack or other physical ailment. These manifestations often prompt patients to seek care from their primary care providers or emergency departments. Once it is determined that there is no organic basis for these symptoms, patients are typically referred to a psychiatric mental health practitioner for anxiolytic therapy. For this Assignment, as you examine the patient case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat patients presenting with anxiety disorders.
To prepare for this Assignment:
- Review this week’s Learning Resources, including the Medication Resources indicated for this week.
- Reflect on the psychopharmacologic treatments you might recommend for the assessment and treatment of patients requiring anxiolytic therapy.
The Assignment: 5 pages
Examine Case Study: A Middle-Aged Caucasian Man With Anxiety. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.
At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.
Introduction to the case (1 page)
- Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.
Decision #1 (1 page)
- Which decision did you select?
- Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
- Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
- What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
- Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.
Decision #2 (1 page)
- Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
- Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
- What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
- Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.
Decision #3 (1 page)
- Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
- Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
- What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
- Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.
Conclusion (1 page)
- Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
Health Policy Simulation/Paper/Infographic
Health Policy Simulation/Paper/Infographic
Complete an Infographic (1-2 page) handout to present to class and politician on the last day of classes.
2 page powerpoint to present
Quality Research Question
If we are to continue to prove the value of NPs, we need more research. What would be a good research question to study and why?
Patient satisfaction would be my interest.
Cultural Interview: A Different Perspective
Cultural Interview: A Different Perspective
Cultural Interview: A Different Perspective
You will submit your assignment as a Word document. See below for instructions.
Interview someone from another culture. This works better when the person is older and lived for a period of his or her life in the other country.
Ask your interviewee the following questions:
- What foods do you believe are needed for good health?
- Were there any traditional foods, supplements, teas or other types of remedies that you assumed were useful?
- How does this relate to your experiences in the U.S.?
Record responses as the first part of your assignment.
Then, based on the responses,
- Do you believe this individual prescribes to the biomedical model? Why or why not?
- What has been their experience with intercultural communication in the health-care setting?
- Has it been a positive experience? Why?
- Has it been a negative experience? Why?
Please prepare a 500 word response fully answering the questions above.
Employee Handbook Assignment
You are the newly appointed Human Resources Director for a small, family owned ambulance firm. Your first task is to “clean-up” some language in the employee manual as it pertains to employee protections, Please write manual language, in no more than 2 pages that explains to the employee protections granted by the following laws:
Pick ANY 3 of the below acts found in your textbook.
Fair Labor Standards Act
Immigration and Naturalization Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Rehabilitation of 1973
Fair Credit Reporting Act
Family Medical Leave Act
Equal Pay Act
Uniformed Services Employment and Re-Employment Rights Act
criminal liability
Criminal Justice
What role does the physician play in child abuse cases?
Criminal Justice
DISCUSS: OXYCONTIN ABUSE AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO PROFESSIONALS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE FIELD.
ALSO DISCUSS: ARE THERE OTHER ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES THAT HAVE AN EQUALLY DEVASTATING EFFECT ON SOCIETY?
module 6
- This assignment will continue to prepare you for your final project.
- In a Word document, in 5-7 pages, APA format, double-spaced:
- Explain, in your own words, the fundamental tenets of distributed leadership.
- Describe how these principles might have a positive impact in facilitating group/team decision making.
- How might distributed leadership fit within the framework of systems theory/thinking?
Other papers that are apart of this one is